How Avengers: Endgame Could Secretly Set Up The MCU X-Men
Two ways Marvel Studios might have teased the arrival of mutantkind...
When it first transpired that Disney were looking to buy Fox and bring the X-Men and the Fantastic Four to the MCU, the most interesting revelation alongside the initial excitement was that Kevin Feige would be introducing them into the existing timeline. Not rebooting. Not spinning off. Marrying them together, just as Spider-Man was dropped in.
The mutants represent something more fundamentally challenging than Spider-Man, though. He is only one character who is young enough to actually cover him just becoming a superhero, whereas the mutants are an entire type of character. They're a species rather than something you can just sort of pull of out thin air, so there has to be some huge narrative reason not only for their appearance, but also for them never appearing before now.
Luckily, there are a couple of possibilities in Avengers: Endgame that could lead to the idea of mutants in the MCU and both of them fundamentally depend on what happens with the Infinity Stones. First up, the idea that Thanos might have unwittingly changed the very fabric of the universe and reality...
Read on past the break for SPOILERIFIC DISCUSSION OF AVENGERS: ENDGAME and the future of the MCU...